Marching to Madness

Coach D'Antoni is working to remake the Thundering Herd after they lost two key leaders and all-around players, Taevion Kinsey and Andy Taylor. Marshall is working on getting its guards into a rhythm on offense which will help to give it quality output on both ends of the floor. Marshall is currently one of the top teams in the nation in average possession which is at 14.7 seconds. Topics of discu...

James Madison head coach Mark Byington sees his Dukes continue their second season in the Sun Belt Conference. JMU already has thrust itself into the Top 25 after a 79-76 opening-night victory over Michigan State. Coach Byington discusses his approach to the running game and its pace in solidifying the Dukes as one of the top transition teams in the nation. Topics of discussion include: The Dukes'...

Coach Seth Greenberg joined ESPN in 2012 and has been one of the top college basketball minds as a coach or in-studio. On today's show, he talks about the ACC-SEC challenge as the two conferences split the 14 games with seven wins each. Greenberg looks inside the matchups at some key ideas from each game and he also discusses Florida Atlantic as a solid program once again this season. Coach Greenb...

Liberty head coach Ritchie McKay has his Flames off to a 6-0 start as they ready themselves for Florida Atlantic and Charleston this weekend. The Flames are led by Kyle Rode who is the leading scorer so far as he paces five teammates in double figures. After a solid non-conference slate, Liberty looks forward to its first season in the revamped Conference USA. Topics of discussion include: Winning...

Coach Murphy is in his fourth season as associate head coach at Arizona as he is known as one of the top recruiters inside the game. Murphy discusses Arizona's win over Duke as well as players in the Wildcats' rotation. Arizona lost four key scorers from last season, but Coach Murphy, Coach Lloyd, and the staff did an outstanding job bringing in a new group of Wildcats who will work towards anothe...

Coach Driscoll is back on "Marching to Madness"  as he and the Ospreys have worked to restructure after losing their top five scorers as four entered the transfer portal while Carter Hendrickson will start his professional career in Poland. Oscar Berry and Chaz Lanier return as Berry shot 40% from three last season while Lanier encompassed a multidimensional game. Topics of discussion include: Ana...

Pepperdine's Lorenzo Romar is back on "Marching to Madness" as he discusses the overall production of leading returning scorer Taylor Mallette. Coach Romar also details the additions for the Waves through the transfer portal where former USC Trojan Ethan Anderson returns to southern California after one year at Wyoming. Pepperdine has plenty of depth which should help the Waves establish a solid r...

Appalachian State head coach Dustin Kerns joins "Marching to Madness" as his Mountaineers are picked in the Top 3 of most every Sun Belt Conference preseason preview or poll. He discusses returning five starters as his team equates to 70 percent of it's returning scoring and 70 percent of its minutes played. In 2021, Kerns led the Mountaineers to their first conference title and NCAA Tournament ap...

Coach Kelsey discusses philosophies which he works on with his players daily to make Charleston a top-level basketball program. The Cougars' 20 consecutive wins a year ago were a school record as they won the CAA regular season as well as the tournament. Charleston returns its second and third leading scorers in Ante Brzovic (11.6 ppg, 5.9 rpg) and Will Reyne (10.8 ppg) as well as a solid role pla...

Coach Eric Konkol is back on "Marching to Madness" as the Golden Hurricane looks to push forward in this season's remade American Athletic Conference. Tulsa will look to use its defense as a key to being competitive after it gave up around 77 points per game last season. Cobe Williams and Keaston Willis are a pair of solid players who came over with Konkol from Louisiana Tech Topics of discussion...

Coach Niko Medved returns to "Marching to Madness" as he discusses Rams fifth-year returnee and all-MWC first-teamer Isaiah Stevens. Colorado State also returns a solid three-point shooter in Jalen Lake. The Rams welcome in a solid transfer class and will look to pick things up defensively over a year ago. Topics of discussion include: The growth of Isaiah into a player who could turn down the NBA...

Coach Sampson and his Cougars move into the Big XII after being a stellar member of the AAC. Houston is 93-14 in the past three seasons with a pair of AAC regular season titles as well as two AAC Tournament championships with the Final Four appearance in 2021. Houston loses three stellar players in Jarace Walker, Marcus Sasser and Tramon Mark, but the return of Jamal Shead plus the additions of Ba...

Coach Jones built Radford University into a Big South contender and now he has the UNCG Spartans challenging in the Southern Conference. Last season, they finished one game behind Furman and Samford last season in the race for the SoCon crown. Coach Jones returns solid twin brothers, Keyshaun and Kobe Langley as Keyshaun was the leading scorer while Kobe works as a solid playmaker. Topics of discu...

A candid conversation with former UCLA head coach Jim Harrick about the loss of the Pac-12. Ken laments his loss as well as a watcher of many Pac-12 games as he studies the league in football as well as basketball. Coach Harrick gives his ideas on where and how the league was unnecessarily brought to its knees. He also talks about the potential of the upcoming 2023-24 Bruins. Coach Harrick also to...

Coach Dambrot returns to "Marching to Madness" with three key returning starters in guards Dae Dae Grant, who made 94 triples last season, and Jimmy Clark, an all-defensive A-10 talent. Coach Dambrot discusses 6-7 shot blocker Tre Williams who is also closing in on 1,000 points. Dambrot also welcomes 10 new players for the second season in a row. Topics of discussion include: Duquesne's Basketball...

Iowa Hawkeyes' head coach Fran McCaffery is a guest on "Marching to Madness" once again as he discusses the team's tour to Spain and France and the importance of the international trips for teams. Coach McCaffery welcomes his returning leading scorer in Tony Perkins, who started all 32 games for Iowa last season. He also comments on the addition of Pryce Sandfort, who joins his brother Payton Sand...

Coach Legans checks in as he has finished his second season in command of the University of Portland Pilots. He is in the middle of rebuilding the program as the Pilots have won 33 games in his first two seasons. You have to go back to 2013-14 and 2014-15 to find when Portland was close to that statistic when the PIlots tallied 32 in back-to-back campaigns. Watch Tyler Roberts who will be a key pl...

The Cardinal returned at the end of August after a 10-day trip where they played in Spain and Greece in late August. Stanford and it's rival, the Cal Bears, have one more Pac-12 season before moving to the ACC with SMU. The Cardinal will be led this season by Spencer Jones, who was an all-Pac-12 forward a year ago and will be key in the Cardinal potentially moving into the top echelon of the Pac-1...

Coach Stoudamire, who was the 1996 NBA Rookie of the Year with the Toronto Raptors, checks in as the head coach at Georgia Tech in the ACC. Coach inherits the program as he comes over after a five-year stint as the head coach at Pacific and then a two-year stint as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics. GT looks to get back near the top in the ACC as it won the ACC Tournament in 2021. Coach S...

Coach Johnson took over the Minnesota Golden Gophers and is working on a monumental rebuild of the basketball team, which he took over three seasons ago. Coach Johnson played for Minnesota from 2002-2005 and has held assistant positions at five different schools as well as Minnesota (2013-18). This is a really solid and analytical conversation where we learn about Coach Johnson's thoughts and idea...

Coach McCasland comes to the Red Raiders after taking the North Texas Mean Green to the NIT Championship while the 31 wins last season were the most in a season in NT history. Coach McCasland's defensive acumen makes him one of the top coaches in college basketball and he now takes his philosophy to Lubbock. The Red Raiders also look forward to the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas in November when...

Coach Chris Gerlufsen talks about his initial year as the head coach at USF. He piloted the Dons to 20 wins which was the sixth time in seven seasons that USF won at least 20 games. Coach Gerlufsen also discusses his offensive coordinator assignments when he was an assistant to Eran Ganot at Hawaii. Khalil Shabazz and Tyrell Roberts graduated as this was the second time in as many seasons that the...

Coach Micah Shrewsberry takes over the Fighting Irish after leading Penn State for two seasons as he was able to place the Nittany Lions into the NCAA Tournament where the win over Texas A&M in Round 1 was the Lions' first 'W' in NCAA play since 2001. Shrewsberry will work on developing an uptempo and three-point offensive attack with the Irish. He has brought in a transfer class that features for...

Coach Odom moves to VCU and the A-10 after leading the Utah State Aggies for two seasons. Utah State finished 26-9 in Odom's second year as the Aggies lost the Mountain West Tournament championship to Final Four participant San Diego State, 62-57, but USU made it to the NCAA Tournament. Coming into VCU, he saw a group of Rams leave, but added a solid group of transfers into the program. Guard Zeb...

Coach Paris makes his debut on "Marching to Madness" as he took over the South Carolina basketball program last season. Paris will look at building the offense into a more sustainable part of the program as he brings in a solid transfer class for the upcoming season. Coach Paris built Chattanooga back into the NCAA Tournament as they played Illinois in 2022 NCAAT and lost a tough 54-53 decision to...